Amen to both! When he was on briefly in Dallas, I used to ask my wife to listen to him on her drive home. She'd be so mad, especially the one time when Ted Bell said the voter registrar in his district let him vote over the phone. "How could they let him do that?"
I finally had to let her in on the secret.
During one of the playoff games against the Penguins and the Panthers in 1996...Phil had Bob Green of the NHL Commissioners Office call into the show to tell people the NHL was canceling the playoffs because there is no way hockey could be popular in Miami and they changed their mind and were going to move the games further north to at least Atlanta (who did not have a team at the time)because they were a market that once had a team and lost it.
This was on WIOD back then...and I am telling you...so many people called in who were pissed off...they actually were buying it.